stop sign

noun

: a sign telling drivers to stop and wait until they can continue safely

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Tibi gave us a high-collared trench coat for spring, whereas Ashlyn fashioned one in stop sign red (also styled with genie pants, mind you). Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2025 When the officers attempted to pull over the BMW, the car sped off and made other unsafe driving maneuvers such as swerving around other cars and running a stop sign. City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025 In autonomous vehicles, a single sticker on a stop sign can fool a vision system. Sagar Gupta, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 And shortly after that, Windom spotted Davis' mother, 41-year-old Mary Lubin, in her car at a stop sign and fatally shot her. Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stop sign

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“Stop sign.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stop%20sign. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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